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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-21

SOME of the owners Of property on Wash
ington street do not think the vile, filthy and
abcmniable transfer car the institution of
the city which the News described it to be the
other day in its imprisoned and eloquent plea
for "the best street-car systemin the country"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-21
AT last accounts
before.

THE director-general Of he Coincide Franchise
in Paris. says he will welcome Nine. Bernhardt
back to the French CAPT sal. He thinks her
service abroad has greatly i'm proved her temper
ament and that possibly she VIII be more tract
able in future when she COMFY back to Paris.
AS it has been only few days si.7ce she threw a
trayful of dishes at the bead on waiter who
was minute or two late in fetchin e her dinner.
it would seem that her cure is hardy complete
Her case is chronic.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-21

INDIANAPOLIS citizens may, or may not,
have the privilege of burning natural gas in
their stoves; but it is reasonably certain that
necessary to lay in a supply of cord-wood for
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-21

New York Mercury. -
Wife Of rich rural Californian at her first
g.and dinner. The Colonel offers his ARM
am to have the pleasure of taking You out to
dinner Mrs APP Rich rural wife-'Go long
with you: my husband is here; take your own
81
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-21
A secopd-Hand Boom.

Philadelphia Press
Pension Commissioner Blacks leftover boom
for Vice president has been sent TO an auction
house to be sold without reserve.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-21
Concentrated Wisdom.

Boston journal.
Friendship Is very poetic, and romantic. and
all that but as a general thing when man
wants to borrow $40 be win do better it he goes
to an acquaintance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-21

Philadelphia North American.
AS long as Henry George is paid SIS q lecture
rs can afford to talk shout giving away land.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-21

To the Editor Of the INDIANAPOLIS journal.
Who represented the Indiana State Legsla-
ture this winter from Spencer countys
A SUBscRIl sER.
UNION CITY, April 20.
Hon. Samuel KercEeval.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-21

SOMEBODY wrote to the editor of village
paper to ask how he would s'break an Ok Ths
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-21
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Telephone Calls.
Business Office o3S Editorial Rooms -. "a g
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-08-12

With few exceptions the steamboat
roustabout is fond of whisky and will
take great chances to satisfy his cravings
for the fire water. When considerable
whisky used to come around from Ken
lucky by the water route the deck hands
devised various ways to tap the barrels.
One of the principal plans was to force
the hoops slightly from their position
then a gimblet would soon make an open
ing. In this straw would be inserted
and the rouster would soon be able to
satisfy his thirst. The opening would be
plugged up, the hoop placed in its original
position, and no one would he the wiser.
1t was long time before the scheme was
detected, and then only by the fact that
some of the rousters went too far by
taking it out in quantities to sell to some
of the levee saloOns.-Globe-D Democrat.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-08-12

A gentleman who recently returned
from the western coast of Africa tells
how natives provide against the dangers
of venomous snakes, which abound in
those regions. 1.-THE Africans on the
coast he said, care far more intelligent
than those in the interior. Just south of
the republic of Liberia there is a large
swampy region which extends for hun
dreds of miles into the interior and for
many miles along the coast. Whenever
it is deemed necessary to penetrate this
vast morass, which abounds in snakes,
the natives simply rub the soles of their
feet with garlic and oil. The scent of
the garlic is too much for the delicate
stomach of the reptiles, and they crawl
away as fast as they are able. This in
sures almost absolute safety. The boa
constructor even hesitates to attack a
man smelling of this odoriferous vege.
table. Another method employed by the
natives when they wish to sit to rest is to
swish the air with rods. The peculiar
noise of the rod seems to inspire the ser.
penis with terror, for they hasten away
out of hearing of the sound. New
York Mail and Express.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-08-12

Only the very darkest nights are Sc
lected by the Chinese fishermen in which
to catch the singular fish that the heather
prize so highly as an article of food.
The squid is about eight inches in length
and almost transparent They are caught
in the following manner: When the night
is very dark, the Chinese go out some
miles in the bay and then build a bright
fire in pans and station them in the bow
of the boat and the fish being attracted
by the glare swarm around the boats and
are gathered in with scoop nets by the
ton. They are taken home and the women
and children give them click and a
promise in the way of cleaning and
spread them on boards, on top of the
houses, and out in the fields, where they
are dried. The fish are then packed and
shipped to San Francisco and to China,
where they are considered a great deli
cacy.-Monterey Argus.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-08-12

This troublesome showing was finally met
hy the Northwestern iagents with the salts
factory answer Ito themselves) that the fall
ing of in the cash dividend per $1,000 of insur-
ance was due to the deferred distribution fol
surplus on tontne policies, and that the Older
policies still received the usual amount OF
dividends. With this plausible statement still
ringing in ones ears, ii is rather amusing
reading II circular recently issued by Messrs.
j. o. Il W. f. Bache, general agents of the
Northwestern at Boston, Mass. Among other
things contained in it is an illustration OF the
cash dividends paid on II policy covering the
life of Mr.. VIM. Sickles of ST. Johns, Mich.
The policy is tor $1,000, although tor purposes
OF comparison the agents have raised II TO n
s2O0O0 basis In order tnat we may not be ac-
cused OF using policy that does not exist,
we reduce the figures to their actual amount,
by dividing the figures in the circular by 20.
The policy was issued in 1867, 10 payment
plan, age "A, premium sG2,7s. The dividend
gradually increased up to 1873, when it reached
the point OF elimination at $1,000. From that
wear down thew were as follows
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-08-12
NEW YORK COTTON EXCHANGE.
Scene in the Trading Room at the Open
ing MISUNDERSTANDING of Bidding.
Dn.,a-l Ln.,..i ln.,ri

Scene in the Trading Room at the Open
ing housekeeping of Bidding.
Bang! bang! bang!
1t sounds something like bull in a
china shop, but it is only the gong at the
Cotton Exchange announcing the opening
of business at 10 o'clock, and the next
instant florid complexioned man. wear
ing eyeglasses, standing in the rostrum,
gives two sharp raps with gavel and
Immediately begins the first call. A
large crowd gathers about the rostrum,
and the man with the gavel calls off the
list of options, beginning with July and
running about a year ahead, while the
brokers shout their bids or asking prices,
converting the exchange into bedlam.
The man who rides in a speculative
whirlwind and directs the commercial
storm from his position on the rostrum is
Superintendent E. r. Powers. Occasion
ally dispute arises among the brokers
as to who bought or sold given hun
dred bales of cotton or more, and Mr..
Powers settles it at once, and the call rat
ties on again amid loud, confused bab-
bic of noise that would astonish a Hot
tentot When the pressure of his other
duties prevents him from presiding at
the CALL Mr.. C. C. Schuster, his assistant
gives the signal for the hurry burly to
begin, and distinguishes bids and offers
which appear to he written in Russian
Sanskrit or Chocktaw
When the call is over the members
gather around the brass ring in the pit
| formed by mimic amphitaeatre, con-
sisting of three broad steps. and then the
trouble begins again. The Liverpool
market, according to the cable dispatches
on a bulletin board, has advanced several
points that is, 2-64 of penny in
English money, or 6-100ths of cent a
pound in our money--and the shorts are
disposed to cover while others are ready
to buy for long accounts. One broker
leans far over the brass ring which keeps
the brokers from tearing one another tc
pieces and shouts: IN give 20 for five
September. y He means that he will give
go cents for 500 bales for delivery ir
that month AS he shouts this out till he
grows red in the face he f1ourishes his
hand like Magician Heller performing 6
sleight of hand trick. Another, with the
veins in his neck swelling till they seer
likely to burst, roars; I'm sell August
at g. meaning 1926 cents.
Another shouts "I'll give fol
August, meaning he will give 1925 fol
100 bales "Sold!' shouts broker
This bid is repeated by the same broker
who seems to have blood in his eye anc
to be eager for the fray "Sold!' shouts
another, and then there is a hasty scrib
bling in note books to record the transac
ton "What's hid for San?n shouts ,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-08-12

Apropos Of the burning of the Opera
Comique in Paris DIR. r. Ogden Dore-
mus has contributed a letter to New
York newspaper in which he states that
articles of wearing apparel, theatre cur
tains. and any textile fabrics can be made
uninflammable by dipping in a solution
of tungstate of soda or borax, and better
yet in solution in water of phosphate of
ammonia. This he states can be done
when washed, and be little or no trouble,
and not affect the appearance or render
the wearing any different from usual,
and thus all undertaking, curtains, ETC.,
can be entirely fireproof In theatres,
all the woodwork can readily be impreg-
mated with phosphates of ammonia, and
the scenery and all the infiammable at
taChments to a stage be made fireproof,
so that such terrible events as that of the
Opera Comique will be impossible. When
asking too much of municipal authorities
to act on this suggestion, and, if possible,
make it available. Owners and man.
ayers of theatres and opera houses should
be required to adopt such means of safety
as would secure to their patrons practi-
cal immunity from being roasted while
in life and health. This Opera Comique
style of cremation is SO very distasteful
that all classes should unite in urging on
the proper authorities to insist on man.
ayers bringing into use all the appliances
for safety from fire that science can un
fold. -Demarest' Monthly.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-08-12
A WOMAN'S WORD.


OH ever when the happy laugh is dumb
All the joy gone, and all the anguish come
When strong adversely and subtle pain
Wiring the sad soul and rack the throbbing
brain
When friends once faithful, hearts once oil our
own,
Leave us to weep; to bleed and die alone
When fears and cares the lonely thought employ,
And clouds of sorrow hide the sun Of joy
When weary life, breathing reluctant breath,
Hath no hope sweeter than the hope of death;
Then tie best counsel and the last relief
To cheer the spirit or to cheat the grief.
The only calm the only comfort heard,
Comes in the music of q woman's word
Like beacon bell on some wild island shore
Silvery ringing in the tempest's roar,
Whose sound, borne shpward through the mid
night gloom,
Tells of the path and turns her from her doom.
Edwin Arnold
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-08-12

In persistent hemorrhage from the
nasal cavity, plugging the posterior mares
should not be done until an attempt has
been made to check the hemorrhage by
firmly grasping the nose with the finger
and thumb, so as completely to prevent
the air from passing through the cavity
in the act of breathing. This simple
means, if persistently tried, will, in
many cases, arrest the bleeding. The
hemorrhage persists because the clot
which forms at the rupture in the blood
vessel is displaced by the air being drawn
forcibly through the cavity in the attempt
of the patient to clear the nostrils. If
this air is prevented from passing through
the cavity, the clot consolidates in posi-
ton and the hemorrhage is checked
Demorest's Magazine.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-08-12
Health of City PeonlA.

1t is serious question whether the
physical deterioration of city life does not
affect in greater or less degree many of
the comfortable as well as the poorer
classes. Families in which the children
and mother, if not the father, spend the
whole summer in the country or at the
seashore, and In which the sons have
every opportunity for outdoor sports
until they are rs or 80 years old, can
stand comparison, physically, with their
country cousins. But many city people
who enjoy homes that are comfortable
and even luxurious, who have good food
and plenty of recreation, are yet engaged
in occupations that are too sedentary and
combining to be altogether healthy. Sales
men and saleswomen, clerks, and a great
number of artisans compose the larger
part of this class.
No subject more practical or more i'm
portant than this of the peoples health
could well be imagined. Physical
strength is as essential to prosperity in
times of peace as it is TO success in war.
In fact, no race ever yet distinguished it.
self by conquest, by art or by literature,
which did not possess the restless vigor
of 'superfluous health. Boston Post.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-08-12

Thousands perish before their time for
the want Of trained nurses in the sick
room, for without them nothing is done
in The right way nor at the right time.
The consequence is-a funeral In all
cooperative, insurance and brotherly So
cieties a nurse fund should at once be
started (only few cents week needed
from each member), out of which to pay
trained nurses when sickness invades the
homes of members. In every commu-
nifty there are numerous families who can
not procure this valuable service except
by combination. By this simple plan
good trained nurses are within the reach
of every sober and industrious family.
Ask your doctor about the matter and see
how warmly he approves the plan. 1t is
not only that life is prolonged, but the
Doctors work is greatly simplified, for
when he makes his morning call he
meets an intelligent nurse, who promptly
and correctly answers all his questions.
No longer shall we hear of the blister be-
ing put on the trunk because the sick one
hadn't chest. Many of the poor make
weekly payment that when they die
there may be funds to bury them. A
better way is not to die before your time
land that's around 1907, but live by em
ploying skilled nurses when sick and eat
ing, drinking and sleeping wisely wher
well. Remember that the right time t.
to prepare for OF is at 10. The doctors
will not be nettled when we say that al
educated nurse, if not better, ia as goo(
as they are in pulling the patient through
Cor. Brooklyn Eagle.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-08-12
The Changes in vesuvius.

As regards accuracy Of detail, "Ben
Hur" stands in the front rank of histori-
cal novels. A curious slip, however, &C.
ours at the beginning of book 8, where
the author speaks of the traveller in the
year "a being able to see the smoking
cone" of Vesuvius 1t was not till 10 A. d.
that Vesuvius again became active. Since
that period Vesuvius has undergone great
changes 1t is probably higher now than
ever before. Indeed from 1s45 to 1868
it is said to have increased in height over
800 feet. Chicago Herald.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-08-12

For practical purposes, then, the bath
in water-without any attention to what
it may contain in solutions to be re-
garded from the standpoint of tempera-
ture. If the water is at temperature
anywhere below 60 dogs. Fab. it is to be
considered as ''cold;' from 60 dogs. to
IS dogs, it is 'cool;" from 10 degs. to
IS degs,, it is temperate; from 50 dogs.
to 90 degs., it is "tepid;" from 90 dogs.
to % degs., it is a 'hot BATH" Some
times the graduated bath" is recon-
mended; this means bath at 80 degs. to
100 dogs. into which the bather enters,
and the temperature of which is gradu-
ally lowered, by the addition of cold
water, to the extent of rs dogs. or 80
dogs. i'll the course of half an hour
Globe Democrat.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-08-12

Through our guide we told the head
eXecutioner that we wished to see the in
struments of his calling, and thereupon
he produced a short, very heavy, two
handled sword and long knife. We
naturally put the question, "How do you
use this swordr Where is the blockl'
eve don't use block. We make the
prisoners kneel in two rows facing one
another and bending their heads down.
Then take the sword and chop one on
each side, and the heads fall off; so on,
till they're all done, as you'd switch the
top off green weeds with your walking
stick"
but you don't always chop head
off with one blow"
always"
"What is the knife for?'
"For the ling che. or death by many
cuts. We tie the culprit who is con-
demned TO this death to a cross, and we
commence by cutting off the eyelids,
ears, nose. and so on, ending by sticking
the knife into the heart. The cuts vary
in number from 8 to 100, according to
the Nervousness of the culprit's crime"
"How many persons have you exc
cuted in day."
II have chopped twenty heads off in
two minutes
Gentlemen give twenty cents each
cumshaw' "a synonym for the Egyptian
basheesh) "to the executioners, said the
guide which we gladly did, to escape
the staring of the head butchers eye,
which had villainous cast; and SC
ended our interview with these high
executioners of the great Chinese empire
Pail Mall Gazette.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-08-12

Occidental statisticians have long been
accustomed for some reason to regard
with doubt the periodical reports con-
corning the population of China, but in
asmuch as the Chinese law requires every
householder to hang at his front door a
list of the inmates of his house, it seems
as though it ought to be easy to make an
accurate census. BY one which the Off
cials of the empire have recently afforded
the population is 45O, 900, 900. Brooklyn
Eaple
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-08-12

Oar is ez much danger in ober doin' er
thing ez dar is in not doin it well er huff.
De dog mighty often runs so fas' dat he
falls ober de rabbit an den lets him git
er way.-Arkansaw Traveller.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-08-12
Magic Lantern with Electric Light.

NJ, Wroblewski made a successful APP
plication of the electric light to the magic
lantern projection of opaque objects. In
the midst of darkness strong light is
concentrated on the object, which be-
comes intensely illuminated and its pict-
ure may he thrown upon the canvas with
the colors fully brought out and even
made more brilliant. Orleans
Times Democrat.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-08-12
Exhibition OF Insects.

An exhibition of useful insects and
their products, with noxious insects and
specimens of their injuries, will be open
in Paris from Aug. 81 to Sept. 20. In
secticides and various insect destroying
devices will also be shown.-Arkansaw
Traveller
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-08-12

Johnny" said the minister, rather
severely, "do you use tobacco?"
"Yes, sir, " was the reply, but I'm
clean out just now; Jimmy Browns got
some, though. Washington Critic.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-08-12

The falling of is is per cent, The percent
age OF decrease since 1878, in cash dividends
per : 900 of insurance in force as previously
shown by us was about 81 per cent. We did
not make nearly bad IA showing for the
Northwestern dividends as do its own agents
in their official statement.
W. II. SHELDON,
Agent tor Mutual Lie.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-08-12

The Knights of Labor Cooperative Cloth
ing company, of Cleveland, has been incor-
porated with 600 600 capital stock
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-08-12
What a Time

People formerly had, trying to swallow
the old-fashioned pill with its film OF
magnesia vainly Disgusting its bitter
ness and what contrast to Ayers
Pills, that have been well called med
icated sugar plums the only fear be-
ing that patients may be tempted into
taking too many at dose. But the
directions are plain and should be
strictly followed.
J. T. Teller, NJ. D., of Chittenango.
n. Y, expresses exactly what hundreds
have written at greater length. he
says Ayers Cathartic Pills are highly
appreciated. They are perfect in form
and coating, and their effects are all
that the most careful physician could
desire. They have supplanted all the
Pills formerly popular here, and think
it must be long before any other can
be made that will at all compare with
them. Those who buy your pills get
full value for their money"
"Safe, pleasant, and certain in
their action" is the concise testimony
of DR.. George E. Walker, of Martins
vile, Virginia
ayers Pills outsell all similar prep
arations. The public having once used
them, will have no others" - Berry,
Venable & Collier, Atlanta, Ga.
Ayers Pills,
Prepared by DR.. j. C. Aver Co, Lowell, Mass.
Sold by all Dealers in Medicine.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-08-12
THE NORTHWEST
ERN BALLOON.
IN WHICH WE ARE MATERIALLY ASSIS
TED BY ITS AGENTS.

The Weekly statement has on several occa
sion pointed out the diminution OF dividends
in the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance
Company. In the issue OF June Sth the fol
lowing table was presented
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-08-20
zachary TayIor,. srnnddaurhtsr.

Those who can travel far enough back
into the past 10 recall the career and adj
ministratiOn Of General Zachary Taylor
viii remember the beauty and attractions
Of his granddaughter, Miss Bette lay
lor, who before her first marriage with
Lieutenant Kingsbury, Of the army, was
a noted Belle in New Orleans and Wash
ington. Death dissolved this marriage
soon after the knot was tied, Lieutenant
kingsbury having been killed at the first
battle Of Bull Run. A lucky investment
in Chicago and the favorable issue Of
lawsuit there have given 10 his son, the
only child of the marriage, handsome
fortune. In the meantime the widow,
after successful society career in the
different cities Of the Union, married the
one-armed hero, General Gallatin Law
renee, with whom, however, she remain
ed but few years, and then disappeared
with MIR. Van der Nest, secretary Of the
Belgian legation at Washington. After
q years seclusion in small continental
town, pending the divorce proceedings
on his side, Mrs. Lawrence was married
to Mr.. Van der Nest and continued to
reside abroad until his death, which oc-
CURED about two years since. A few
years ago Gallatin Lawrence also died,
and the wife Of three husbands has now
taken to herself fourth in the person
OF an English gentleman, who was an
early friend of Mr.. Van der Nest-a toll
erably romantic career, and one that the
old hero, President Taylor, hardly an
ticipated for his "darter," as he always
called Washington Post.